Maurice Smith (born December 13, 1961) is a retired American kickboxer and

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. In kickboxing, he held the WKC (World Kickboxing Council) world light heavyweight championship, the WKA (World Kickboxing Association) world heavyweight championship, and the ISKA (International Sport Karate Association) world heavyweight championship. In mixed martial arts, he held the Heavyweight championship in Battlecade Extreme Fighting and the

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, and became a member of the

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in 2017. A professional competitor since 1980, Smith has formerly competed in kickboxing for the companies All Japan Enterprise and

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, RINGS,

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and RFA.

Career

Raised in Seattle, Washington, Smith got into

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at the age of 13 after watching

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's '' Chinese Connection'', and having had to retreat from a fight. He trained in

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, and

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, until he found the sport of

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at age 18. Smith attended West Seattle High School, where he played

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and participated in

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Kickboxing career

Smith won his first seven amateur kickboxing matches and then turned professional. His first fight was on March 4, 1982 against World Kickboxing Council's Light Heavyweight Champion Tony Morelli, who defeated him by decision after the seventh round. Seeing he had lost due to his lack of cardio, Smith started to train extensively to improve it, and fourteen months later, he went to his rematch as a new fighter. He then defeated Morelli by KO via

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also in the seventh round, winning the championship. Later that year, he was called for a non-title fight in Japan against the renowned Don "The Dragon" Wilson, and although Smith lost the fight, he had shown heads in the kickboxing world that he was on the way up. Maurice moved up a weight class and won the World Kickboxing Association Heavyweight Championship from Travis Everett, knocking him out via low kicks. In 1984, Smith went to compete in Holland, beating Marcel Swank in the first round. Smith went ten straight years without a loss. He also had a notable win in 1991 over Stan Longinidis who, at the time, was tearing through the ranks and was regarded as a super up and coming fighter. Maurice won this 12 round match by split decision after coming back from a knockdown in the first round by Stan and surviving an early onslaught. In 1993, Smith was invited to the K-1 Grand Prix '93 along with seven of the world's best Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight kickboxers. Smith won his first match by defeating Japanese fighter Toshiyuki Atokawa in the quarterfinals by unanimous decision. In the semifinals he met Dutch fighter and future K-1 legend, Ernesto Hoost, where after a hard-fought battle Smith was knocked out by left highkick in the final round, ending his tournament.

Mixed martial arts career

Smith had his first contact with mixed rules of fight, when he was invited in November 1989 by the Japanese

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promotion UWF Newborn. He was scheduled to face up-and-coming wrestler Masakatsu Funaki in a mixed rules fight, but his opponent got injured and was replaced with training partner

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. During the fight, Smith kept negating Suzuki's takedown attempts by employing the pro wrestling-ruled rope scapes and a rudimentary sprawl ability, knocking him out several times with strike before finishing him with a right punch at the fourth round. The event sold out the Tokyo Dome and broke record gates. On October 4, 1992, Smith would face Funaki in an exhibition fight for

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, ending in a draw. In 1993, Smith debuted for the mixed martial arts promotion

founded by Funaki and Suzuki. He took part in a kickboxing rules fight against Suzuki in the event Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 3. Later, he was scheduled to compete in a special rules MMA fight, in which the first and third rounds would be fought wearing boxing gloves, the second and fourth barehanded, and the fifth with only Smith wearing them. However, Smith lost the fight when Suzuki took him down at round 3 and made him tap to an

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. The next year, he took part in the King of Pancrase tournament. Maurice beat Takaku Fuke on the first round but fell to

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via

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. He would go to lose twice to

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, however his loss to Shamrock was more instrumental to his career, as he became friends with him and was sent to his dojo in United States, the Lion's Den, to learn proper MMA. There he met

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, who he formed a close relationship with. Shamrock and Smith worked synergistically; Shamrock, a submission specialist, improved Smith's ground game, while Smith in return improved Shamrock's striking. Along with Japanese fighter Tsuyoshi Kohsaka, who had befriended Frank after a fight between them in Fighting Network RINGS, Smith and Shamrock eventually formed their own MMA team, called the Alliance. Smith joined Battlecade Extreme Fighting in 1996 to fight against the Heavyweight Champion Marcus "Conan" Silveira. Throughout the fight, Maurice showed excellent use of the sprawl technique which negated the Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter's attempts at takedowns, as well as a remarkable submission defensive whenever Silveira was able to engage him on the ground. Smith then knocked out Silveira in the third round with a roundhouse kick to the head. In doing so, he became the Extreme Fighting Heavyweight Champion and became the first legitimate striker to win a top-end MMA event. He then defended his title in the fourth show against judo and pro wrestling exponent

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. Although Murakami surprisingly dropped Smith with a palm strike at the beginning, Smith escaped from his ground game and hit a barrage of leg kicks against the prone Japanese, and later knocked him out with a single punch. After the win, the company folded and Maurice joined the largest MMA promotion in the United States, the

. At UFC 14 on July 27, 1997, Smith faced UFC Heavyweight Champion

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in a title fight. Smith was considered to be a massive underdog for the bout, but shocked the mixed martial arts world with a unanimous decision victory to win the

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. With this win, Smith became the first striker to survive the attack of a world class wrestler. Through the use of an active guard, Smith was able to negate Coleman's vaunted ground and pound attacks. After nearly 15 minutes of attempting to damage Smith through his guard, Coleman was exhausted, allowing Smith to capitalize on the feet. Eventually, he won the decision against an exhausted and damaged Coleman. Smith then successfully defended his belt against David "Tank" Abbott winning after Abbott was too exhausted to continue, before losing his belt to MMA legend

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by majority decision, in a controversial fight that many viewers deemed as a fight that Smith should have won; especially since Smith was the reigning and defending UFC heavyweight champion.

Return to MMA

On May 19, 2007 Maurice Smith had his first MMA bout in almost seven years when he defeated

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by TKO in a rematch at an

show held in

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. He saved his energy for the first rounds, making little action, before turning to attack and dropping Ruas thrice with striking combinations for the towel throw. On February 23, 2008 at a

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, Smith defeated kickboxer Rick Roufus, who was making his MMA debut, by submission at 1:53 of the first round. Maurice Smith was the coach of the Seattle Tiger Sharks of the

from 2006 to 2007. He is currently associated with ''Team Alliance''. Smith returned to MMA on March 30, 2012 at the second Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA) card against Jorge Cordoba, his first career fight as a Light Heavyweight. After spending the first two rounds picking apart Cordoba with various strikes, Maurice finished the fight with a head-kick knockout. He was scheduled to fight Ryan Lopez on June 30, 2012 at Resurrection Fighting Alliance's third event, RFA 3. Weeks before the fight, though, Lopez was forced to pull out of the fight due to an unspecified illness. Smith returned to the Heavyweight division and lost a unanimous decision to Matt Kovacs at Cage Warrior Combat (CWC) 9 on November 2, 2013.

Championships and accomplishments

Kickboxing

** 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix Preliminary USA winner ** K-1 World Grand Prix '93 Tournament Semifinalist *

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** I.S.K.A. World Muay Thai Heavyweight Champion (1996) * World Kickboxing Association ** W.K.A. World Kickboxing Heavyweight Champion (1983) ** W.K.A. World Muay Thai Heavyweight Champion (1994) * Other ** W.K.C. Light-Heavyweight World Champion (1983)

Mixed martial arts

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(Pioneer wing, Class of 2017) **

(One time) ** One successful title defense ** UFC Encyclopedia Awards *** Fight of the Night (One time) * Extreme Fighting ** Extreme Fighting Heavyweight Championship 3 Marcus "Conan" Silveira ** Extreme Fighting Heavyweight Championship 4 Murakami Kazanari *

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** 1997 Most Outstanding Fighter ** 1997 Fight of the Year vs. Mark Coleman on July 27 *

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** 2001 Full-Contact Fighter of the Yea

Kickboxing record

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Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...

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, United States , , Decision , , 7 , , 2:00 , , 9-1 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 1983-00-00 , , Loss , , align=left, Tony Morelli , , , ,

Surrey Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ...

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, United States , , - , Win , align=center, 14–13 , Jorge Cordoba , KO (head kick) , RFA 2: Yvel vs. Alexander , , align=center, 3 , align=center, 2:05 , Kearney, Nebraska, United States , , - , Loss , align=center, 13–13 ,

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, Submission (neck crank) , World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 3 , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 2:23 , Saitama, Japan , , - , Win , align=center, 13–12 , Rick Roufus , Submission (straight armbar) , Strikeforce: At The Dome , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 1:53 ,

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, TKO (corner stoppage) , IFL: Chicago , , align=center, 4 , align=center, 3:43 ,

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Renato Sobral Renato Sobral da Cunha (; born 7 September 1975), also known as "Babalu", is a retired Brazilian Luta Livre submission grappler, mixed martial artist, and was the former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion. Sobral previously fought in the U ...

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, United States , , - , Win , align=center, 11–11 , Bobby Hoffman , Decision (majority) ,

UFC 27 ''UFC 27: Ultimate Bad Boyz'' was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championships on September 22, 2000 at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. Background UFC 27 was the 4th UFC event to be held in Louisiana af ...

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Renzo Gracie Renzo Gracie (; born March 11, 1967) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and 7th degree coral belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and coach. A third generation member of the Gracie family, he is the grandson of Gracie jiu-jitsu co-founder C ...

, Submission (straight armbar) , RINGS: King of Kings 1999 Block B , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 0:50 ,

, Japan , , - , Win , align=center, 10–10 , Branden Lee Hinkle , Decision (majority) , RINGS: King of Kings 1999 Block B , , align=center, 2 , align=center, 5:00 ,

, Japan , , - , Loss , align=center, 9–10 , Marcus Silveira , Submission (arm-triangle choke) , WEF 7: Stomp in the Swamp , , align=center, 2 , align=center, 2:48 ,

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, TKO (corner stoppage) , UFC 21 , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 5:00 ,

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Kevin Randleman Kevin Christopher Randleman (August 10, 1971 – February 11, 2016) was an American mixed martial artist, amateur and professional wrestler, and former UFC Heavyweight Champion. Randleman's background was in collegiate wrestling, in which he ...

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, Japan , , - , Win , align=center, 7–7 , Tank Abbott , TKO (leg kicks) , UFC 15 , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 8:08 , Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, United States , , - , Win , align=center, 6–7 ,

, Decision (unanimous) , UFC 14 , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 21:00 ,

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Akira Maeda (born Go Il-myeong (Hangul: 고일명, Hanja: 高日明), January 24, 1959) is a Japanese mixed martial arts promoter, writer and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Maeda was also known by the ring name Kwik-kik-Lee durin ...

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, Japan , , - , Win , align=center, 4–6 , Marcus Silveira , TKO (head kick) , Extreme Fighting 3 , , align=center, 3 , align=center, 1:36 ,

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Kiyoshi Tamura is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Once a student of legendary professional wrestlers Billy Robinson, Lou Thesz and Akira Maeda, Tamura was known for his skills in catch wrestling and is considered to be on ...

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, Japan , , - , Loss , align=center, 3–5 , Tsuyoshi Kohsaka , Submission (heel hook) , RINGS: Budokan Hall 1996 , , align=center, N/A , align=center, N/A ,

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, Submission (rear-naked choke) , Pancrase: Eyes Of Beast 6 , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 4:34 ,

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Manabu Yamada Manabu Yamada (山田学, born May 18, 1969, in Tochigi, Japan) is a retired Japanese mixed martial arts fighter. He is best known for his participation in Shooto and Pancrase fighting organizations. On December 17, 1994, Yamada advanced to the ...

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, Submission (kneebar) , Pancrase: Eyes Of Beast 4 , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 2:10 , Chiba, Japan , , - , Loss , align=center, 2–2 ,

, Submission (arm-triangle choke) , Pancrase: King of Pancrase Tournament opening round , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 4:23 ,

, Japan , , - , Win , align=center, 2–1 , Takaku Fuke , KO (knee) , Pancrase: King of Pancrase Tournament opening round , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 2:48 ,

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